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January 16, 2008

The Pound Sterling has dropped quite considerably compared to the Euro over the past months. I heard this through a news flash on BBC Radio yesterday.

What do the experts say? Well, it has to do with the Pound being closely tied to property prices and the recent Northern Rock debacle acting as the match that lit the fire. Although it’s way beyond my capabilities to analyze its impact on daily life, for our personal situation this is not too bad as we still keep a fair share of our savings in Euros…

Euro-Pound conversion

Posted by roger | Filed Under Blog, In the news 

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